HM Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, advocates a considerable reform of the Family Code and requires the revision of the legislative and regulatory texts relating thereto.
Rabat twenty third Dec 2024. H.M Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, has introduced clear directives for the revision of Morocco’s Family Code, underlining the necessity for a balanced and holistic reform that aligns with the nation’s spiritual precepts and up to date social wants.
In a gathering held on the Royal Palace in Casablanca on twenty third December 2024, the King instructed the federal government to speak the main points of the revision to the general public and be sure that the reform course of is carried out inside an inexpensive timeframe, adhering to constitutional pointers.
The working session illustrates the actual significance and the High Concern that the Sovereign attaches to this concern which considerations all residents, with the ambition of realizing their increased pursuits and establishing stable foundations for the Family, as the basic core of society.
This session additionally comes to shut the method of revising the Family Code, after the Authority in command of this concern submitted to the Highest Appreciation of His Majesty the King, throughout the time restrict assigned to it, a report containing greater than 100 modification proposals and after His Majesty the King was sort sufficient to submit these of them relating to spiritual texts for examination by the Higher Council of Ulemas, which issued a Sharia opinion on their topic.
This session not solely reaffirmed the King’s imaginative and prescient for a extra fashionable and inclusive Family Code but in addition mirrored the federal government’s accountability to make sure that the reform is accessible and comprehensible to all Moroccans.
In Morocco, the reform of the Family Code, carried out by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, is a part of the Royal will to strengthen and consolidate the household unit as the basic basis of Moroccan society.
This revision can be consistent with the 2004 reform, which marked a serious turning level when it comes to ladies’s rights and the promotion of their situations, and highlighted the distinctiveness of the Moroccan mannequin on the regional and worldwide degree.
The King’s High Guidelines included a number of key directives to the federal government, that are central to the subsequent steps within the reform course of.
In this regard, HM burdened that the Family Code revision should replicate Morocco’s dedication to progress whereas safeguarding its spiritual and cultural ideas.
Also, He added that the draft reform of the Family Code have to be imbued with the ideas of justice, equality, solidarity and symbiosis emanating from Islam and worldwide conventions ratified by Morocco.
His Majesty the King additionally burdened the necessity for the legislative stage to be imbued with the spirit of reform and openness, and the will to ensure the authorized, social and financial safety of the household.
His Majesty the King additionally burdened the necessity to guarantee the event and formulation of proposals arising from “Ijtihad” throughout the framework of clear and intelligible authorized guidelines and legislative texts, facilitating its implementation and avoiding contradictory judicial interpretations.
The King burdened the necessity to consider all the opposite axes that consolidate and strengthen the reform of the Family Code, whether or not by means of the consolidation of the expertise of household justice, the revision of the legislative and regulatory texts relating thereto and the event of consciousness applications permitting residents to entry the regulation and higher perceive their rights and obligations.
In June, the Monarch instructed the Higher Council of Ulema to totally evaluate the proposals from the Family Code Revision Authority to make sure they align with Islamic ideas and aims. He has additionally directed the Council to concern a Fatwa on the proposals.
The King’s directions are clear: the authorities should now prioritizepublic communication and proceed to work diligently towards a reformthat aligns with the aspirations of Moroccan society whereas remainingfirmly grounded within the nation’s authorized and spiritual frameworks.
In this regard, His Majesty the King referred to as on the Higher Council of Ulema to create, inside it, a framework liable for persevering with constructive reflection and Ijtihad on the problem of the household, and for deepening analysis on the problems of Fiqh posed by the transformations that the Moroccan household is present process and the progressive responses that they require with a view to assist social modifications.
His Majesty the King goals, by means of the creation of this institutional framework, to maintain the door completely open to Ijtihad within the service of the upper curiosity of the household, in gentle of the event of society, and in order that Ijtihad is not occasional or depending on a request for Fatwa addressed to the Higher Council of Ulema
In his speech delivered to HM the King throughout a working session, Mr. Abdellatif Ouahbi, who’s additionally member of the Authority liable for the revision of the Family Code, indicated that the proposals ensuing from the broad consultations concern the assorted points lined by the Family Code and purpose to appropriate sure authorized and judicial dysfunctions recorded, to transcend the heaviness and slowness of judicial procedures, to make sure higher intervention by the general public prosecutor and to handle sure social phenomena associated to the problems of underage marriage, polygamy, youngster custody, Nafaqa, authorized guardianship, the marital dwelling, in addition to the issues ensuing from the breakdown of the conjugal relationship that threaten the perfect pursuits of kids.
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